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Node/Express Debugging

devtool server.js --break

Gotchas

• be sure to set content type correct else express body parser will incorrectly parse out the data.

GET URL

http://localhost:8080/shopping-list
http://localhost:8080/recipes

wget

wget -S -O - "http://localhost:8080/shopping-list"
wget -S -O - "http://localhost:8080/recipes"

curl

curl -H "Content-Type:application/json" "http://localhost:8080/shopping-list"
curl -H "Content-Type:application/json" "http://localhost:8080/recipes"

POST URL

wget

wget -O- --post-data='{"name": "coffee", "budget": "6"}' --header=Content-Type:application/json "http://localhost:8080/shopping-list"
wget -O- --post-data='{"name": "abc", "ingredients": ["a", "b", "c"]}' --header=Content-Type:application/json "http://localhost:8080/recipes"

curl

curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" http://localhost:8080/shopping-list -d '{"name": "test", "budget": "99"}'
curl -i -X POST -H "Content-Type:application/json" http://localhost:8080/recipes -d '{"name": "abc", "ingredients": ["a", "b", "c"]}'

Test POST with bad URLs

wget -O- --post-data='{"name": "abc"}' --header=Content-Type:application/json "http://localhost:8080/recipes"
wget -O- --post-data='{"ingredients": ["e", "f"]}' --header=Content-Type:application/json "http://localhost:8080/recipes"
wget -O- --post-data='{"name": "abc", "ingredients": []}' --header=Content-Type:application/json "http://localhost:8080/recipes"

DELETE URL

Delete shopping list using delete method:

curl -X DELETE "http://localhost:8080/shopping-list/:id"

for example:

curl -X DELETE "http://localhost:8080/shopping-list/72191148-8ca8-45a5-a796-3f9b8139473c"
curl -X DELETE "http://localhost:8080/recipes/83b2883d-59cb-43c7-aff8-ca0af654ab22"

wget seems to hang:

wget --method=delete -S -O - "http://localhost:8080/shopping-list/:id"

PUT URLs

Update with Curl PUT:

curl -i -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" 'http://localhost:8080/shopping-list/a4a88b9c-3c7a-4fc5-85ed-52ea66431ee7' -d '{"name":"updated","id":"a4a88b9c-3c7a-4fc5-85ed-52ea66431ee7","budget":"99"}'

curl -i -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" 'http://localhost:8080/recipes/6e27afba-c481-4321-b02c-f73546f29b0e' -d '{"name":"updated","id":"6e27afba-c481-4321-b02c-f73546f29b0e","ingredients":["a","b","c","d"]}'

wget, note use of --body-data

wget --method=put -O- --body-data='{"name": "acoffee", "budget": "9", "id":"b508608f-f0c8-42b4-81b7-d4419daa831d"}' --header=Content-Type:application/json "http://localhost:8080/shopping-list/b508608f-f0c8-42b4-81b7-d4419daa831d"

Test PUT with bad URLs

curl -i -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" 'http://localhost:8080/recipes/6e27afba-c481-4321-b02c-f73546f29b0e' -d '{"name":"updated","id":"6e27afba","ingredients":["a","b","c","d"]}'

curl -i -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" 'http://localhost:8080/recipes/6e27afba-c481-4321-b02c-f73546f29b0e' -d '{"id":"6e27afba-c481-4321-b02c-f73546f29b0e","ingredients":["a","b","c","d"]}'

curl -i -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" 'http://localhost:8080/recipes/6e27afba-c481-4321-b02c-f73546f29b0e' -d '{"name":"updated","id":"6e27afba-c481-4321-b02c-f73546f29b0e"}'

curl -i -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" 'http://localhost:8080/recipes/not-exist' -d '{"name":"updated","id":"not-exist","ingredients":["a","b","c","d"]}'